* READ ME FILE 
* Sorting for K-Street: Post-Employment Regulations and Strategic Wage Setting in Congress
* By Elisa M. Wirsching
* Journal of Politics

This file includes the datasets and code to reproduce the tables and figures in my manuscript. 

The file includes the following data files:
congress_yearly.dta - Staffer-year panel with information on staffers' salary trajectories in Congress and their exit to lobbying (used for sections 5 and 6 in the manuscript); Main source: LegiStorm
lobbyist_yearly.dta - Lobbyist-year panel with information on lobbying revenues and Congressional career history of lobbyists (used for section 7 in the manuscript); Main source: Open Secrets
lobbyist_counts.dta - Accessions in lobbying industry (from OpenSecret records and Legistorm data) and in federal government (from OPM FedScope records)

The file includes the following code:
For all results: MASTER.do

For the main text:
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For the online appendix:
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Some key variables used to perform the statistical analyses in the article are proprietary and were purchased from Legistorm. Due to Legistorm's licensing restrictions, I am unable to post the full data to a publicly available Dataverse. This implies that all individual-level identifiers, including raw salary and position information, are excluded from the datasets in this replication. Where necessary (e.g. for individual-level fixed effects), I created alternative individual identifiers in the anonymized dataset.

All results are produced using Stata MP 16.1 on a Windows operating system.

Scholars interested in reproducing additional results should contact Elisa M. Wirsching at elisa.wirsching@nyu.edu. 
